Quote by Wallace Stegner Download Open image ““She was so old, she would have had to be dated by carbon 14.”” — Wallace Stegner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she… — Jennifer Close Copy Share Image
“I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to… — David Dabydeen Copy Share Image
“But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Since thirteen, she’d been preparing. She wasn’t beautiful like these Bayhead Harbor girls, but it was surprising how men sometimes looked at her. More… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as… — Russell Beland Copy Share Image
“In the past, she could never count on him, and now she was old enough to know better than to need anyone.” — Zøe Haslie Copy Share Image
“In college, 29 had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she… — Jennifer Close Copy Share Image
“When I saw her in the light she was quite an old woman, fifty years old at least. But I went ahead and did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She wishes she was old. She'd swap her life to be in a life that was nearly over, so long as she didn't have… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“even if I could go back in time to her as me, the age I am now she would never come into my arms… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. —” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
